Last week we nominated three blogs for six awards categories. Before voting you might like to remind yourself of the nominees by clicking on the links below: Best Parliamentary Blog – Nadine Dorries MP, Dan Hannan MEP and John Redwood MP Best Young Conservative Blog – Mark Clarke, Matthew Sinclair and Birmingham CF Best Anonymous […]
Dizzy Thinks – Managing to blog prolifically in-between meeting computer programming deadlines, Dizzy is always an amusing and enlightening read. A London-based Conservative activist and self-described "internet geek", he is particularly good at digging out random websites and technological stories of interest, and has a knack for rebuffing left-wing columnists. Iain Dale’s Diary – Surely […]
PragueTory – The only blog shortlisted for any award that is based overseas (no prizes for guessing where!), PragueTory has burst onto the centre-right blogosphere in the last year. Better known for his blog-based campaigns and wars against left-wing bloggers than for commentary, he’s a good person to have on your side! The New Culture […]
All Saints Gazette: Robin Millar was quick to see the potential of blogs as a way of communicating with his constituents, starting it in October 2004 and receiving a local award in 2006. He is a senior member of Forest Heath Council and the founding director of a consultancy company that deals with local government. […]
We’ve added an award category for mysterious bloggers to make it a bit more interesting. Being able to say what you want on the internet under the cloak of anonymity certainly has its negative sides, but we’d be worse off without insightful blogs such as these: Watlington – One of the main contributors to the […]
This was a very difficult category to shortlist (it got by far the most comments when we first mentioned it). There are many notable exceptions but we’ve chosen the following three very different blogs: Matthew Sinclair – Sinclair’s Musings is updated about twice a day, often with lengthy, academic posts. It is wide-ranging in scope, […]
Next week we’ll be opening the online vote for the 2007 Conservative Blog Awards. Over the next few days we’ll be running through the three finalists in each category. Here is the parliamentary shortlist: Nadine Dorries MP – This daily dose of raw honesty and emotion has attracted a massive daily following inside and outside […]